The latest issue of Historein brings together scholars from the fields of history, political science, political economy, historical sociology and cultural studies, to comment on the theoretical and empirical unsettling of democratic transitions at the time of the economic crisis. The volume links together transitions in time and space, reappraising the democratic processes in Southern Europe in the mid-1970s, the post-1989 transformations in Eastern Europe, the effects of Southern Cone democratisations and the 2011 revolts in the Arab worlds, resisting both temporal particularities and national exceptionalisms. It further showcases how even supposed model transitions came under attack during the current economic crisis, thus highlighting the inconclusive nature of these events and the strong interconnections between past and present.
Issue Editor: Kostis Kornetis
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Introduction: The end of a parable? Unsettling the transitology model in the age of crisis
ARTICLES
Transitions to democracy: what theory to grasp complexity? Leonardo A. Morlino
Back to the revolution: The 1974 Portuguese spring and its "austere anniversary" Guya Accornero
Narrating the story of a failed national transition: discourses on the Greek crisis, 2010–2014 Hara Kouki, Antonis Liakos
Political economy and the ghosts of the past: revisiting the Spanish and Romanian transitions to democracy Cornel Ban, Jorge Tamames
Class, violence and citizenship in the Arab uprisings: assessing deeper forms of transition Benoit Challand
The use of transitology in the field of transitional justice: a critique of the literature on the 'third wave' of democratisation Raluca Grosescu
They called it democracy? The aesthetic politics of the Spanish transition to democracy and some collective hijackings of history after the 15M movement Germán Labrador Méndez
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Penelope Buckley's The Alexiad of Anna Komnene: Artistic Strategy in the Making of a Myth Kallirroe Linardou
Review of Julia P. Cohen’s Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era Darin Stephanov
Review of Thomas Gallant's The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century Constantina Zanou
Review of Christopher Clark's Οι Υπνοβάτες: Πώς η Ευρώπη πήγε στον πόλεμο το 1914 Elli Lemonidou
Review Alexis Rappas' Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict Eleni Braat
Review of Kostis Kornetis' Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the "Long 1960s'" in Greece Polymeris Voglis
Review of Manuel Loff, Pilipe Piedade and Luciana Castro Soutelo (eds.), Ditaduras e Revolução: Democracia e Políticas da Memória Miguel Cardina
Review of Ioannis D. Evrigenis' Αντίπαλον δέος: Έξωθεν φόβος και συλλογική δράση Georgios Steiris
Review of Nikos Daskalothanassis' Ιστορία της τέχνης: H γέννηση μιας νέας επιστήμης από τον 19ο στον 20ό αιώνα Lia Yoka
BULLETIN
Political Thought and Practice in the Ottoman Empire (Halcyon Days in Crete IX Symposium, Rethymno, 9–11 January 2015) Eleni Gara
International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography Book Prize 2016
IN MEMORIAM
Late this Summer-In Memoriam Vangelis Kechriotis Ioanna Laliotou, Vangelis Karamanolakis